Call for Submissions to Proposed Volume: "Thrift, Horatio": Critical andLiterary Responses to Thrift, the Secondhand, and the Recycled.

Articles and creative works are solicited for a proposed collection focusingon "thrift" in literary texts, theories of the recycled and the secondhand,critical appraisal of the images of recycling and consignment,interdisciplinary papers relating to these issues, and creative responses(fiction/nonfiction) to thrift and the art of "thrifting."

We are soliciting contributions for a collection of essays (to bepublished by McFarland and Company ) which will address the work ofStanley Kubrick from a variety of new and fresh perspectives. Ingeneral, we are particularly interested in essays that synthesizeanalyses of several Kubrick films as they relate to a particulartopic, rather than single film studies. As an example, an essay isalready underway on architecture and Kubrick's films. We particularlyencourage original, groundbreaking analysis and discussions ofoverlooked aspects of Kubrick's work.

Preference will be given to essays that are already completed ornearing completion.

For a 40th-year anniversary special issue, African AmericanReview invites scholarly queries, proposals, and papers fora special issue on Julia C. Collins, African American authorof several recently re-discovered essays and the 1865 novelThe Curse of Caste, or The Slave Bride. The publication ofthe special issue will coincide with the 2006 publication ofThe Curse of Caste, the first since its mid-19th-centuryserialization in The Christian Recorder, edited by WilliamL. Andrews and Mitch Kachun for Oxford University Press. AAR also welcomes scholarly work that willcontextualize Collins and her extant writings. Prospectivetopics include the 19th-century African American press,

For a 40th-year anniversary special issue, African AmericanReview invites scholarly queries, proposals, and papers fora special issue on Julia C. Collins, African American authorof several recently re-discovered essays and the 1865 novelThe Curse of Caste, or The Slave Bride. The publication ofthe special issue will coincide with the 2006 publication ofThe Curse of Caste, the first since its mid-19th-centuryserialization in The Christian Recorder, edited by WilliamL. Andrews and Mitch Kachun for Oxford University Press. AAR also welcomes scholarly work that willcontextualize Collins and her extant writings. Prospectivetopics include the 19th-century African American press,

Call for papers. The Australian Association of Jewish Studies is pleased toissue this call for papers to be presented at its 18th annual conference,which will be convened at The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australiaon 12-13 February 2006.

Call for papers. The Australian Association of Jewish Studies is pleased toissue this call for papers to be presented at its 18th annual conference,which will be convened at The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australiaon 12-13 February 2006.

Call for papers. The Australian Association of Jewish Studies is pleased toissue this call for papers to be presented at its 18th annual conference,which will be convened at The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australiaon 12-13 February 2006.

Call for papers. The Australian Association of Jewish Studies is pleased toissue this call for papers to be presented at its 18th annual conference,which will be convened at The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australiaon 12-13 February 2006.

This is a call for proposals for 2 areas of the Mid-Atlantic Pop/Am.Culture Annual Conference. The 2005 conference will be held at the HyattRegency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ from November 4-6, 2005. The 2 areasare: "This Builds That: The Architecture of Literature" and "Technology andthe Home"; descriptions are below. I look forward to receiving proposals atthe address listed below by June 15, 2005.

This is a call for proposals for 2 areas of the Mid-Atlantic Pop/Am.Culture Annual Conference. The 2005 conference will be held at the HyattRegency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ from November 4-6, 2005. The 2 areasare: "This Builds That: The Architecture of Literature" and "Technology andthe Home"; descriptions are below. I look forward to receiving proposals atthe address listed below by June 15, 2005.

This is a call for proposals for 2 areas of the Mid-Atlantic Pop/Am.Culture Annual Conference. The 2005 conference will be held at the HyattRegency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ from November 4-6, 2005. The 2 areasare: "This Builds That: The Architecture of Literature" and "Technology andthe Home"; descriptions are below. I look forward to receiving proposals atthe address listed below by June 15, 2005.

African American Review is soliciting essays for a specialissue on the Post-Soul aesthetic to be published in 2007.Greg Tate calls the Post-Soul "the African Americanequivalent of postmodernism," and a working definition ofthe Post-Soul aesthetic could include, but not be limitedto, this quotation from Thelma Golden, curator of the StudioMuseum in Harlem (who prefers the term "post-black"):"For me, to approach a conversation about 'black art'ultimately meant embracing and rejecting the notion of sucha thing at the very same time. . . . [The Post-Soul] wascharacterized by artists who were adamant about not beinglabeled as 'black' artists, though their work was